Disable Wallpaper Change in Windows 7

Desktop wallpaper can be restricted and can be set against any change for wallpaper. Often Administrators in an organization feels their need to put their Organization wallpaper on their computer which is fixed and cannot be changed by any other user on that computer. This can be done easily using a Group policy editor setting. Although the same can be done with Registry, Third party Software. This setting lets you specify the wallpaper on user‟s desktops and prevents users from changing the image or its presentation.



- Open Run Dialogue Box (Win + R) and type gpedit.msc
- Navigate to Local Computer policy > User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Desktop in left hand side pane.
- Select Desktop Wallpaper setting from right side pane.
- Open it and enable it.
- To use this setting, type the fully qualified path and name of the file that stores the wallpaper image. You can type a local path, such as C:\Windows\web\wallpaper\home.jpg. Also this setting specifies that the wallpaper image be centered, tiled, or stretched.
- Press OK



Note: This setting does not apply to remote desktop server sessions. Also Log off or restart is required to make the changes affect. By vasu Jain

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Desktop wallpaper Slideshow: Shuffle Desktop background

Windows 7 has a new feature which can display all wallpapers in a desktop Slideshow. Earlier there were few software that can display a slideshow of all your Wallpapers (Webshots being one of the most popular). To setup a desktop slideshow:

- Right-click at the desktop
- Select Personalize > Desktop Background






Here you can browse the Picture location to select a folder to choose images for desktop slideshow.



- Select and click as many images from the folder you want for desktop slideshow.
- Duration of slideshow can be chosen (anything from daily to once every 10 seconds), also order of appearance can be selected as sequential or shuffle.



Click Save Changes and enjoy the Slideshow. BY Vasu Jain

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Customize Windows 7 Power Button Action

The “Shut Down” button in Windows 7 can be customized with another action, if you use shut down action very rarely, but you more often restart it or put it on hibernate.



To change the action of shutdown button, Right click the Start Button, go to Properties and choose the „Power Boot Action” to do whatever you want, from the given options. It will give you a drop down list amongst following option to select from.
- Switch user
- Log off
- Lock
- Restart
- Sleep
- Hibernate
- Shutdown




Now the button at Start Menu would change and perform the action as selected.
by vasu Jain

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Customize UAC in Windows 7

Windows 7 User Account Control displays less warning than UAC in Vista, and lets you customize UAC according to your need and preference between security and a less annoying desktop experience. UAC prompts in Windows 7 are not as much as in Vista as very few programs require elevation, and Administrator can adjust these UAC prompts.

Go to Start > Control Panel > User Accounts > Change User Account Control Settings



Here you can select when to notify or bring the UAC prompt. There are 4 levels of security which includes:
 Always Notify
 Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer
 Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer (do not dim my desktop)
 Never Notify
Select them according to your balance between security and desktop experience and adjust the level of UAC prompt. Any change to the level of the UAC will prompt for confirmation.

by vasu jain

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Customize the Windows 7 log-on screen

Windows 7 makes it easy changing the Windows log-on screen.
1. Go to start, and click on Run, type Regedit & press enter there.
2. Navigate to : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\ LogonUI\Background
3. Double-click the OEMBackground DWORD key
4. Set value of the key to 1.



5. Select a background image for Logon Screen with size less than 256KB in size (Use of Image Resize software like VSO Resizer can help)
6. Copy that image into the C:\Windows\system32\oobe\info\backgrounds folder
7. Rename the image to backgroundDefault.jpg
8. Reboot, and now your logon Image would have changed.

by Vasu Jain

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Create new instance of an Application in Windows 7 Super Taskbar

In windows 7 Taskbar instance of an application can easily be created by using Win + Number Key. Here number key signifies the position of the Application in the Taskbar.


If you press Windows + 1, it will create a new instance of the first icon in the task bar. In the taskbar Shown here it will open an instance of Internet Explorer while Win+5 open Windows media Player, Win+7 to Windows Live writer and so on.

Now that‟s when i wish there must be Double digit Keys as well in Keyboard.

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Copy Command Prompt Output

Windows 7 command prompt can be used with a clip utility that can used to copy the contents of the command prompt output into clipboard. It is very much similar like the way tee command works in UNIX. Tee command pipelines the output of a command in UNIX to another file. In Windows 7 we can use the "Clip‟ utility to copy the text of command prompt. Adding clip next to any command copy the output.

Syntax for Clipping the Command prompt output: “Command | clip” .You need to type the command followed by Clip in the Command prompt. e.g. > f:\dir | clip will copy the output of the command in clipboard; though it won‟t be displayed .You can further paste the “clapboarded text” to notepad or WordPad.
By Vasu Jain

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Windows 7 : Assign Keyboard Shortcuts for Programs

Application can be assigned a shortcut key in Windows 7. The application would launch when the combo of keys is pressed which you entered as the Shortcut Key for that application.

To create Shortcut key for any application in Windows 7:
1. Right-click the program icon and select Properties.
2. Select the Shortcut tab
3. Click in Shortcut key textbox
4. Enter the keyboard shortcut for that program.
5. Press OK to exit.
6. Use the Keyboard shortcut combo to launch the application.



Like the way i have used a combo of keys Ctrl+Alt+C to launch calculator application other applications can also be launched using Shortcut keys.

By Vasu Jain

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Windows 7 : Application based Volume Mixer

Volume Mixer in Windows 7, not just show device volume but also lists all applications that are currently running and producing the audio. You can control the audio of any of the application from there on. So when you are having more than one application that is producing sound you can control from here and stop it as well.



at the time when i snipped the screen, there were few applications running on my system, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, few media players Windows Media Player, VLC Media player, QuickTime and one video clip was also being played in Windows Live photo gallery (yes it can play Video as well apart from Images)
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Windows 7 : Access Jump Lists with the Left Mouse Button

Jump Lists are a new feature in Windows 7 that shows recently used files for a particular application or related tasks to an application. Jumplists can be accessed by right clicking an application icon in Windows 7 taskbar.
Although it can be accessed by left clicking an application icon and while holding the mouse click dragging the icon upwards. i.e. Right click and drag the application icon upwards to access jumplists in Windows 7 using Left Mouse button.



The more you drag icon upwards the lesser transparency of Jumplist becomes. In above screenshot, case 1 shows when Jumplist invoked through right click and application icon is not dragged much upwards while case 2 shows solid Jumplist when application icon is dragged upwards completely.

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What Is Chrome OS?

For some people, might be wondering what is the OS Chrome? Is this different from Windows OS? Following are advantages and main features of the OS Chrome


A Cloud-based experience
All applications, documents, and settings are safely stored in cloud. So even if the user loses his computer, the user can log into other notebooks based on Chrome OS and return to work.

Stay connected
Integrated wifi for home and work, and 3G for all places in between.

Solid Security
Chrome notebook uses advanced technology to help prevent malware and viruses to access your data.

Upgrade by itself
Each time if users turn on the Chrome notebook, upgrades will be done by itself with the latest features and numerous improvements.
This means users no longer need to bother thinking about 'holes' in case of the OS.

Web-based Applications
Each notebook Chrome all are running a web-based applications, from games to photo editing all web-based. This does not include the latest application of the Chrome Web Store or simply typing the URL into the address bar, which means no CD required.

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